Weathering the Storm!

This year turned out pretty strange. The beginning of the year started out pretty normal, not unlike most others, the middle section seemed to kick a lot of ass, but yeah, toward the end there it just kind of fizzled out and went the other way... Between getting arrested for something I didn't do, the car accident and the letter I received the day after Christmas asking me to move out, I think it's safe to say I got my fair share of curve balls. Shit storms are inevitable in life though and sometimes you just have to be ready to roll with it and see what happens. You can never really know, maybe those bad things were really good things in disguise.

Anyhow, Jeremy Fish recently opened an exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, appropriately enough, it's called "Weathering the storm." It's really good and definitely worth the ten dollars and your time. A lot of the themes in this collection of Fish's work deal with many of the more "pressing" issues the US and its economy has seen over the last four quarters, but fear not fellow dilettantes, true to his passion, Fish still manages to incorporate that perfect blend of rabbits, skulls, hands and cartoonery (not an actual word) to keep even the ADDiest of the ADD kids happy. Like middlefinger-unicorns? He's got you covered. Vans that puff skull exhaust plumes? You're covered! Funky soul music in the background of a long corridor of deceptively simple illustrations? COVERED!

If Fish isn't your scene, and he may not be, there are plenty of other works in the museum that are sure to get your mind-cogs turning, it's 90% pop though, so romanticists, you have been warned. Admission is ten dollars and it runs through the seventeenth. Check it out while you can, his work is too fun to get mad around -- you'll have a good time.